MIT CENTER FOR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor, Information Technology
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- Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Science / Director, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Laboratory
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- Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies
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- Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Innocentive, Inc
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- Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
Engel, D., Woolley, A. W., Jing, L. X., Chabris, C. F., & Malone, T. W. (2014) Reading the mind in the eyes or reading between the lines? Theory of Mind predicts effective collaboration equally well online and face-to-face.
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- Associate Provost for Digital Learning and Innovation
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- Professor, Geisinger Health System
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- Professor of Computer Science
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- Associate Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Science
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- Seley Distinguished Professor of Management Director, MIT Leadership Center
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- Equipment Corp. Leaders for Global Operations Professor
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- Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human Behavior / Director, Center for Biological and Computational Learning
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- Development Assistant Professor
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- Head of Design Strategy, Collective Intelligence Design Lab
- Member of the Leadership Team at GE - Spinoff Genpact
Gianni joined the CI Design Lab at its inception, after a long experience in the corporate world leading technology-driven innovation through human-centered design methods. His mission at the Lab is to expand innovation practices' "art of the possible" with a particular focus on design thinking, as well as engineering repeatable methods for creating "superminds" able to innovate and adapt at scale.
In addition to his role at MIT, Gianni is a member of the leadership team at GE-spinoff Genpact, a professional services firm, where he oversees the company's digital innovation efforts. His previous career spans more than two decades across innovation strategy, marketing, and transformation consulting with global and emerging leaders in professional services (Boston Consulting Group, Everest, Datamonitor) and software (SAP). He started his professional journey in marketing analytics with the Danone Group. He is widely published in the press and is a frequent speaker at trade conferences. Gianni has also authored several scientific papers and is an active blogger on digital and workplace topics.
Based in New York, Gianni holds a post-graduate degree in organizational and social behavior from the London School of Economics and a Business Administration degree from the EME Strasbourg Business School and the University of Florence, Italy. He has completed advanced education programs focused on innovation at Harvard and MIT. Gianni has lived in seven countries across Europe, North America, and Asia.
Gianni can be found on Twitter @ggiacomelli
James H. Hines, Thomas W. Malone, George Herman, John Quimby, Mary Murphy-Hoye, James Rice, Paulo Goncalves, James Patten, & Hiroshi Ishii. Construction by Replacement: A New Approach to Simulation Modeling. Cambridge, MA: MIT Center for Coordination Science, Working Paper, January 2005.
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- Senior Lecturer, Sustainability / Sloan School of Management
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- Professor of Management Director, MIT System Dynamics Group
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- Sloan Distinguished Professor of Managerial Communication and Work and Organization Studies / Sloan School of Management
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- Professor of Computational Cognitive Science / Head, Computational Cognitive Science Group / Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- Dense Collaboration Networks and Centralized Communication Lead to Better WikiProjects. Proc. Sunbelt 2011, St. Pete 's Beach FL, Feb. 10 - 13, 2011
Zhang, X. Fuehres, H. Gloor, P. Predicting Stock Market Indicators Through Twitter: "I hope it is not as bad as I fear", Collaborative Innovations Networks Conference, Savannah GA, Oct 7-9, 2010
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Assistant
Malone, T.W. Heuristics for designing enjoyable user interfaces: Lessons from computer games. Proceedings of the ACM and National Bureau of Standards Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, Gaithersburg, Maryland, March 15 - 17, 1982.
Malone, Thomas W. How Hyperconnectivity is Changing the Way That We Solve Problems (keynote presentation). Mobius Executive Leadership Conference, October 24, 2022 (Malone introduction starts at 3:00)
Malone, Thomas W. How can we reinvent the organizations of the 21st century? Online interview on the occasion of Malone receiving the lifetime title of Honorary Fellow of the Argentinian Engineers' Center (Centro Argentino de Ingenieros, CAI), August 25, 2021 [Introduction in English starts at time 03:43; interview begins at 07:30].
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- Trust Me! - Analyzing Global Leadership Networks. Sunbelt 2007, Corfu, Greece, May 2 - 6 2007
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- LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research / MIT Media Laboratory
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- Founding Director
- Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management
- Professor of Management Director
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. At MIT, he is also a Professor of Information Technology and a Professor of Work and Organizational Studies. Previously, he was the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century." Professor Malone teaches classes on organizational design, information technology, and leadership, and his research focuses on how new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology.
For example, Professor Malone predicted, in an article published in 1987, many of the major developments in electronic business over the following 25 years, including electronic buying and selling for many kinds of products. Then, in 2004, Professor Malone summarized two decades of his research in his critically acclaimed book, The Future of Work. His newest book, Superminds, appeared in May 2018. Professor Malone has also published over 100 articles, research papers, and book chapters; he is an inventor with 11 patents; and he is the co-editor of four books.
Malone has been a cofounder of four software companies and has consulted and served as a board member for a number of other organizations. His background includes work as a research scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a Ph.D. from Stanford University, an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich, and degrees in applied mathematics, engineering, and psychology.
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He was also the founding director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century." His most recent books are Superminds (2018) and The Future of Work (2004). He has also published over 100 articles, research papers, and book chapters; been an inventor on 11 patents; co-edited four books, and been a co-founder of four software companies.
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- Professor of Media Technology / MIT Media Laboratory
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- Research Scientist
- Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence
Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks (COIN). He is also Founder and Chief Creative Officer of software company galaxyadvisors where he puts his academic insights to practical use, helping clients to coolhunt by analyzing social networking patterns on the Internet - spot the next big thing by finding the trendsetters, and to coolfarm - increase organizational happiness, creativity and performance through workforce analytics.
In addition Peter is a Honorary Professor at University of Cologne and a Honorary Professor at Jilin University, Changchun China. He has also taught classes at University of Bamberg, Universidad Cattolica, Santiago de Chile, Aalto University Helsinki, University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Applied Sciences Lucerne, and University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. Previously, Peter was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, leading its e-Business practice for Europe, a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the section leader for software engineering at UBS. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Lab for Computer Science in the Advanced Networking Architecture group, working on hypertext well before the Web emerged and creating the multimedia CD "Animated Algorithms" (published by MIT Press). He obtained a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Zurich, and a Master's degree (diploma) in Mathematics also from the University of Zurich.
In his spare time he likes to work on bridging the digital divide, hiking and skiing in the mountains, and playing the piano.
He has written 9 books, his three newest books are Morality, Emotions, and AI (forthcoming), Swarm Leadership and the Collective Mind: Using Collaborative Innovation Networks to Build a Better Business (Emerald Publishers, 2017) and Sociometrics and Human Relationships: Analyzing Social Networks to Manage Brands, Predict Trends, and Improve Organizational Performance (Emerald Publishers, 2017), previous books include Swarm Creativity - Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks (Oxford University Press, 2005), Coolhunting - Chasing Down The Next Big Thing (with Scott Cooper) (AMACOM, 2007), and Coolfarming - Turn Your Great Idea In The Next Big Thing (AMACOM 2010).
He blogs about Swarm Creativity at swarmcreativity.blogspot.com. Contact him at pgloor@mit.edu
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- Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
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- Member of the Faculty Steering Committee
- Anita Williams Woolley, Defend Your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women, Harvard Business Review, 89 ( 6 ) : 32 - 33, June 2011
- Economist
- Management Professor
- Professor
- What AI Will Do to Corporate Hierarchies, the Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2019
Thomas W. Malone speaks at IBM Cognitive Systems Colloquium, October 2, 2013, (video of this talk)
Thomas W. Malone receives honorary doctorate from University of Zurich, May 2012
NiemanLab, MIT management professor Tom Malone on collective intelligence and the "genetic" structure of groups. May 4, 2011
Thomas Malone and David Engel, Integrated information as a metric for group interaction, PLOS One, October 11, 2018
Wigand, R. 20 years of research in electronic markets and networked business: An interview with Thomas Malone. Electronic Markets (2011) 21: 5-17
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- Professor, MIT CSAIL / Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
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- Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
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- Doris and Don Berkey Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences / Director, McGovern Institute
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- Associate Director
- Research Scientist
Laubacher, R. J. & Malone, T. W. Entre dos mundos (English title: "Between two worlds") Gestion, November - December 1999, 4, 92-103. (Spanish translation of excerpts from the following working paper: Robert J. Laubacher, Thomas W. Malone, and the MIT Scenario Working Group. Two Scenarios for 21st Century Organizations: Shifting Networks of Small Firms or All-Encompassing "Virtual Countries"?MIT Initiative on Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century, Working Paper No. 001, January 1997).
Robert J. Laubacher, Thomas W. Malone, and the MIT Scenario Working Group. Two Scenarios for 21st Century Organizations: Shifting Networks of Small Firms or All-Encompassing "Virtual Countries"? In Malone, T. W., Laubacher, R. J., & Scott Morton, M. S. (Eds.) Inventing the Organizations of the 21 st Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Robert Laubacher and Thomas Malone. Retreat of the Firm and the Rise of Guilds: The Employment Relationship in an Age of Virtual Business, chapter 16 in Malone, Laubacher, and Scott Morton, eds. Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century. MIT Press, 2003.
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- Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT / Director, Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory
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- General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor
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- Professor of Management of Innovation and Engineering Systems / Head, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group / Sloan School of Management
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- Director, World Wide Web Consortium / Senior Researcher, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- Assistant Professor, System Dynamics